In the Fox News segment, widely aired on the Internet, Mr. Gutfeld said the Canadian military “wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants.”

“Isn’t this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country?” he said. “They have no army.”

[….]

“I didn’t even know they were in the war. I thought that’s where you go if you don’t want to fight — you go chill in Canada,” he said.

Four hearses carrying the flag-draped coffins of the latest Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan are receiving a police escort along the Highway of Heroes.

[….]

The deaths bring to 116 the number of Canadian soldiers who have died in the Afghan mission since it began in 2002.

No US ally has lost more troops in Afghanistan than Canada.

Update. I missed this part of the Globe and Mail piece the first time through:

Mr. Gutfield, who is also a Huffington Post blogger, author and magazine editor who previously had stints at the helm of Men’s Health, Stuff and Maxim UK, refused to reply to an e-mail from The Globe and Mail sent to his personal account requesting an interview (as well as a short game of Canadian trivia). Instead, he forwarded the message to a Fox publicist, who responded on his behalf.

I’m not the biggest fan of the HuffPost, but why on earth would they let someone like this clown blog there?

Update update. And here’s what Gutfield wrote in his Twitter account about the incident:

My apologies to the Canadian military, they probably could at least beat the Belgians.

"The March 17th episode of Red Eye included a segment discussing Canada’s plan for a ‘synchronized break,’ which was in no way an attempt to make light of troop efforts," host Greg Gutfeld said in a statement issued Monday.

"However, I realize that my words may have been misunderstood. It was not my intent to disrespect the brave men, women and families of the Canadian military, and for that I apologize.

"Misunderstood". Right. Still, it does serve as a data point that it is theoretically possible to get Fox News to back down from some asinine thing that one of their hosts has said.

It’s particularly an a–holish move because we’re there cleaning up after that very large army that was whisked off to the central front in the GWOT in Iraq. They are great troops but more and more Canucks are getting tired of seeing them come home in closed coffins from that conflict that will never, ever end, maybe not even if they get a few decades with no foreign troops on their soil. SNAFU, indeed.
Here’s the story on some of the first Canadian troops killed there, BTW-

It’s difficult to imagine a more ignorant, vile group of people. Do you think the right wing talking heads will condemn these idiots for disparaging one of our allies? Remember that those people werethe ones who wailed when someone dared mention that a member of the Iraq War "coalition of the willing" might only be contributing 10 or 20 soldiers.

I’m an occasional poster here; I imagine it is only the Canadians here who recognize what my login name refers to.
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Suffice it to say that I have never been as disgusted with Fox News as I am right now. Words fail me.

"I’m soooo sorry the rest of the world is too stupid to ‘get me’ and my humor. I’m soooo sorry that everyone misunderstood that when I was making fun of our military allies, what I really meant was…what I really meant was…Hey, look over there! Missing white woman!!"

Yeah, but it’s past time we started calling these morons out, because the vast bulk of American citizens doesn’t pay very close attention. One reason Rush Limpbaugh has become the "leader of the Republican party" is that Rush isn’t too fastidious to speak every fReichtard talking point ten thousand times, until even the least attentive voter picks up a vague idea that there must be something dreadful involving Obama’s birth certificate, or they wouldn’t keep hearing those words filter over the airwaves in every coffee shop, oil-change joint, and bus station.

"We have police officers, and they have mounties. Our cops drive heavily armored cars, they ride horses. We have bullet-proof vests, they have little red jackets that can be seen a mile away."

I just wondered if these guys know that the US record in armed conflicts with Canada is:

Canada – 4
US – 0

And that "ridiculous country" didn’t wait until a year and a half after Hitler invaded Poland to send an expeditionary force to Europe to fight the Nazis, either. If not for the Canadians, we’d all be speaking German now, singing "Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles…"

This is somehow suppose to show that Canada is stupid and lame, but really, which country would you rather live in?

Right, like all those horror stories about the hellish nightmare that is living in "old Europe" with socialized healthcare, generous unemployment benefits, universal day care, paid family leave and 4+weeks of vacation time!

“I didn’t even know they were in the war. I thought that’s where you go if you don’t want to fight — you go chill in Canada,” he said.

Mr. Gutfeld has the right to say this because, proud and patriotic ‘merken that he is, on September 12, 2001 he bravely enlisted and was one of the first on the ground fighting for freedom in Afghanistan. Oh, wait…

Please, someone, send us a few educated winguts. Here’s a data point for Mr. Gutfeld:

Wingnuts can’t remember who was President 3 months ago when all the market-destroying economic malfeasance went down, and are busy trying to blame the Depression on FDR, so I think the "educated" ship has sailed, my friend.

In other news, several members of the Canadian Forces stomped Mr. Gutfled until he was reduced to a vile smelling oil slick. They claimed they mistook him for a large cockroach and apologized for the misunderstanding.

PPCLI – the Canadian military is a great fighting force when our guys aren’t busy killing your guys through gross negligence. Too bad about 2 Commando in Somalia, another disaster that should ultimately be laid at the feet of US Republican leadership.

I love it how these guys in this clip who have never worn a fucking uniform (except, perhaps, a fast food logoed polyester top) are seeking joy in denigrating the distress felt by those who have actually had the guts to serve.

Send these dregs of the sewage treatment process to Afghanistan. Or a Canadian veterans’ hospital. Or to a session with a real yogini. By the end of the hour it would be the Nut Salutation, because they would be namaste-ing their eensy-weensy sacks from afar.

These asshats don’t do patriotism. It’s nationalism all the way. Torture? It’s okay as long as you do it while wrapped in the flag. Bunch of Canadians die helping us? Fuck ’em, if they wanted to matter, they’d move to Michigan (or Israel). First and fourth amendments? Pre-9/11 mindset…

Fucking assholes. Fucking ASSHOLES. Wow, I’m actually gritting my teeth in rage. Casually dismissing the sacrifices of Canadian troops and sliming them all with "they’re such effete sissies" innuendo at the same time. Real classy, Greg.

I’d be willing to contribute to a fund that hires a busload of Canadians to pay a little visit to this show’s set, armed with hockey sticks, and put all four of these unctuous little shits into intensive care.

What’s really galling about the whole thing is that Canada volunteered to go to Afghanistan out of sympathy and support for what Americans went through during 9/11, but instead of the U.S. putting full support behind that mission, they went off to Iraq and put Afghanistan on the back burner. If the U.S. has kept its focus on Afghanistan Canada would not have worn down as they are now, and public opinion in Canada may not have turned against military involvement there.

Wait a year, then we’ll see. Their banks are heavily invested through subsidiaries around the world and it’s not clear how much their domestic operations are at risk from their international exposure. It will depend on how deep this thing goes. I went looking this weekend for a Canadian bank to diversify into while the dollar seems unusually buoyant and wasn’t terribly impressed.

They also were not terribly clear about foreign-sourced deposits in Canadian dollars being guaranteed. The FDIC site has that front and center and in comparison the CDIC’s language is a bit hedging.

That’s exactly right, tousjoursdan. Basically, it’s as though the U.S. and Canada are two buddies at a bar. Someone comes up and sucker-punches the U.S. and a fight breaks out. Canada leaps in to help his buddy. He’s heavily outweighed and outnumbered, but is doing his best, when he looks over and realizes that the U.S. has gone to the bar down the street and has sucker-punched someone there.

"WTF?" doesn’t even begin to describe the reaction that most of us had when the U.S. decided to go on its little Iraqi adventure.

And as for Gutfeld…that little bitch better hope I never see him face to face. I’d leave that miserable little waste of oxygen lying on the sidewalk, choking on his own blood. My grandfather (rest his soul) was a Canadian veteran, and I’ve been to Vimy Ridge and I saw row upon row of graves of Canadians — most of them friggin’ kids.

One possible consolation: unlike between, say, 2001 and 2006, it’s the third-string Fox boys who are pulling this 11 on the manly scale of absolute gender stuff, not the first-stringers like Brit Hume.

@conumbdrum:
Wouldn’t need a busload of Canadians, Rob Furlong would easily suffice. Former Canadian sniper, he holds the record for longest confirmed combat kill. Took out an AQ fighter carrying a RPK at 2430m, about a mile and a half shot. Did so in 2002 Afghanistan probably about the time Gutfield was going through 101 Fighting Keyboardist basic training.

I’m an occasional poster here; I imagine it is only the Canadians here who recognize what my login name refers to.

Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Didn’t have to look it up, either.

Up heah in Maine, we keep an eye out for our neighbors, and appreciate it when they keep an eye out for us. Until recently, in the big mill towns, you could usually find a Royal Canadian Legion post, or at least one co-located with the American Legion. Had a few beers once with someone who was a mortarman with the North Shore Regiment in Italy…memorable stories of Cassino, the Liri

I’d like to turn Mr. Dumbfuck there into the middle of the ice at a hockey game, after playing his "humor" on the Jumbotron. It would be interesting to see if they could clean his remains out of the rafters.

Seriously: on behalf of my country, the United States of America, I apologize to both the nation and citizenry of Canada. This is not right. Sadly, I am not in a position to either force a real apology from this meat-based doorstop or have him executed for the offense he has committed, so this apology will have to do.

I don’t think this is typical of the attitude toward Canada, but every time I hear criticism like this, it disgusts me. Size-wise, Canada is a large country. Population-wise, we’re small.

We fucking give all.

Fuck those who condescend. Fuck them. The lives of Canadians are worth every bit as much as those of Americans. Fuck those who think otherwise.

Fuck them.

It’s no wonder people fucking hate Americans. What a shitty fucking attitude. And honestly, That’s not fair either – most Americans are smarter than this. But fuck those who think Americans are the only ones doing anything and are the only lives worth mourning.

Fuck them. We’re there for YOU – not vice versa.

Fuck those who think in percentages and who think because 4000+ Americans have died that it outweighs the number of Canadians and others who’ve died.

F.U.C.K. Them.

P.S.: I’m not pissed at B-J commenters. I’m just tired of people who discount the Canadian contribution to this effort. I’m sick of it. Fucking SICK of it.

You’re fucking LUCKY Canada is on your side. If not, you’d have a lot more enemies you fucking fucks.

I’m not the biggest fan of the HuffPost, but why on earth would they let someone like this clown blog there?

I don’t think he’s actually posted there in a few years. When he did, though, it was kinda wierd. The blog portion was accessed by clicking on his profile. That’s where he wrote it. The main blog area had some meaningless stuff in it.

Man, what fucking assholes. I’d beat the shit out of them too if I ever saw them.

And yeah, the Canadians deserve a sincere apology.

People are right to point out Vimy Ridge and Dieppe. Those little Fox weenies should also learn about the First Special Service Force, a combined US-Canadian unit in WWII that was as tough as they came.

Actually, he joked the Canadian government, and the way in which it has allowed it’s military to go to shit for lack of funding and support. And then went on to say he respects anyone who serves their country.

My apologies to the Canadian military, they probably could at least beat the Belgians.

Oh, for fuck’s sake, now I’m *really* pissed off.

I’ve spent some time over there in Flanders, wandering around the WW I battlefields. I’ve seen the place where the Germans first used Mustard Gas in the war, against the Canadians. In fact, they are the only ones who held the line against the Germans near Ypres.

There are more Canadians under the ground in Belgium than there are working neurons in Gutfield’s head. What a horrible, horrible man.

Fuck him. I’m an atheist, but if there is a Hell, it is for the Gutfields of the world.

Actually I don’t get why Redeye and that other FOX show suck so bad. The conservatives I know are funny as shit. Yet redeye and 1/2 hour news hour just make them all look less funny than grass growing.,

And then there are the self-hating Canadians. I switch back and forth between the CBC and Toronto talk radio when I work at home (CBC when I feel serene, talk radio when I’m spoiling for a fight) and this has already come up a couple of times. One libertarian host called it comedy and nothing to get worked up about, and the morning show conservative thought it was awful, but something we set ourselves up for by mentioning taking a break. (Of course, this is the same guy who plays the most mawkish, craptacular soft-rock tribute to Canadian soldiers every chance he gets. Don’t make me hunt it down and link to it.)

Per capita, Canada has lost more soldiers (116) in Afghanistan than the US has (669). Incidentally, this kind of ratio was true for WWI and WWII as well.

The non-apology apology from Gutfeld was insincere at best. He said he "didn’t intend to disrespect" the Canadian armed forces or the RCMP, but that’s exactly what he did intend. His Twitter tripe just proves it. He’s an insincere, smarmy, smug ignoramus.

I’ll tell you, if I ever meet the guy, I’m going up on assault charges myself. Not that I particularly feel compelled to defend the honour of either the armed forces or the RCMP, but the trivialisation of Canadians yet again sticking our necks out for Americans and getting no recognition rankles quite a bit. Also, he made an enemy of me by using the most misogynistic insults possible. In case you didn’t catch the subtext or the vocal mannerisms, he and his scabrous crew of panelists basically said that the Canadian Forces and the RCMP are a bunch of faggy faggy sissy girly fags and that kind of crap gets up my nose.

It’s bad enough to insult soldiers and police officers who, people like them have been telling us for years, are ostensibly fighting for our freedoms; it’s quite another kettle of rancid fish altogether to insult them by calling them women.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure his HuffPo stint was short-lived. It’s pretty lame he can still be referred to as a HuffPo blogger when he’s been gone for years. HuffPo should say something about this, actually.

I’m mad!!!111!!11!!! See me roar in righteousness. Jesus Christ, grow a sense of humor. Good on Gutfield for not bending over for such idiocy. Some of you people are seriously unbalanced. The Canadian servicemen I work alongside are grownups, they wouldn’t throw a hissy fit over a comedy show.

Moreover, they actually by and large agree with Gutfield. Because *shocker* on a day by day basis they deal with the bullshit of being used as political pawns abroad while not being supported financially. They know their government supports them on the cheap – with less defense spending per capita than any country in NATO but Luxembourg. Their equipment is falling apart. Their government should be shamed. Not Gutfield.

That crack about the Mounties is actually wrong, and has been for awhile. The horses & red outfits are ceremonial stuff, when actually on duty they look like any other cop now — right down to the guns.

What these gasbags don’t realize is that Canada has done much more in Afghanistan than provide troops and die on the battlefield. While watching us abandon our commitment to Afghanistan for another little adventure in Iraq, they’ve tried to do the state-building we were supposed to do. And now, Canadian diplomats going around American universities, convincing the public that Afghanistan is still a worthwhile endeavor and that donor countries should continue to invest.

Wait, don’t you live in the US, sucking off the teet?
If you don’t like it go back to your godforsaken frozen wasteland, huddle up in your igloo munching poutine and kiss your queen’s saggy ass.
And take that hideous Celine Dion with you.
USA! USA! USA!

No one has ever accused Canadians of being especially bright visa-vee world affairs. Canadians are not unlike West Virginians, the smart talented people go to the US to make money and the not so smart children fight in other people’s wars.

Where does this wingnut idea of pansy-ass Canada come from anyway? Sarah Palin, Governor Starburst herself, comes from Alaska, which is full of manly men who spent their time shooting wolves, wrestling bears and chopping down trees in a manly way. Whereas, right next door, Canada is full of the Nathan Lane character from The Birdcage. WTF?

I’m trying to translate that to a sports analogy. Isn’t that kind of like putting a hoop in the end zone and shooting a 3-pointer from the 50 yard line?

No, it’s much, much harder than that. With the wind, he was aiming 22 feet away from his target. The bullet would have dropped nearly 100 yards in the 4.5 seconds it took to get there. It was a mile and a half away. It was quite an achievement. And of course, snipers don’t just kill one person, they also freak out everyone else around the dead guy, so he was really helping with the AQ fighters in Afghanistan. Many people are uncomfortable with sniping, but he really did save American lives.

The thing that struck me about these obnoxious comments is that some conservative speakers seem to believe that because they support the military, that that gives the same stature as someone who is actually in the military. If a U.S. Army guy wanted to dump on the Canadian Army, well, he could be right or wrong, but he has earned his right to have a strong opinion.

I guess you see the same attitude with sports fans where "we" beat the Knicks or the Yankees or whatever, while some of the "we" members train year-round at their sport, and endure a lifetime of struggle trying to get the skills and endurance to excel, while others in the "we" are still trying to find the best way to open the Cheetos bag.

No. That was the Brits. Canadians are still a Brit colony or a US colony. They get all whiney about how special they are, but when it comes down to it, all the smart canadians go to the US to make money and all the rest live in igloos and enlist in silly wars.
Personally, I’m sick of Canadians and their "We got killed lots in WW2" and "National health care, we have it!".
Fuck em, what have they ever done for me?

Speaking of the French, it used to piss me off no end to hear the nutters mock them as "surrender monkeys."

I guess they never studied history. Else they would have known that 92,000 Frenchmen died during the Battle of France, and another 58,000 died later on the Western Front. Not to mention the 20,000 or so who died in the Resistance. Oh yes, and the 5,000 or so who died fighting the Japanese in Indochina.

I agree with you both. Personally I support the troops and the hard work they’re doing overseas, but I don’t agree with them being sent there. I’d love to see our troops back by the end of 2009 or 2010 at the latest, because enough is enough. This is America’s war, they can deal with it.

On a lighter note, I just want to say thank you to the Americans who have renewed my faith in my neighbours to the south. I originally read about this story on Fark and was pretty pissed – it’s nice to see there are still some decent people south of the border.

Michael D. — don’t even bother with Mako and his…ilk. Anybody who thinks that it’s okay, or even funny for an American to insult and mock an ally — an ally who has had sons and daughters die on America’s behalf — well, their sense of humour is not exactly what I would call mature. They’re like those cheerful assholes who always take a joke three steps too far, and then when people get pissed off, whine "Jeez…cancha take a joke? Where’s your sense of humour?" And they utterly fail to notice that nobody else is laughing.

People like that can’t be argued with. All you can hope is that they someday have a truly humbling experience that knocks a little bit of empathy into them — hopefully via a blunt object.

In the Fox News segment, widely aired on the Internet, Mr. Gutfeld said the Canadian military “wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants.”

“Isn’t this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country?” he said. “They have no army.”

Canada basically held the line in Afghanistan once we got distracted by the pretty shiny object in Iraq. I have relatives on my wife’s side who’ve done multiple tours there with the Canadian special forces and it is not fucking pretty.

This more or less reflects the wingtard response to every embarrassing right-of-center media figure. I would buy that [Rush/Hannity/Coulter] is irrelevant and/or misunderstood if such a large fraction of the GOP’s base didn’t reflexively jump off a cliff to defend whatever moronic thing they just said.

Michael D.—don’t even bother with Mako and his…ilk. Anybody who thinks that it’s okay, or even funny for an American to insult and mock an ally—an ally who has had sons and daughters die on America’s behalf—well, their sense of humour is not exactly what I would call mature

Well, c’mon, except for the pissant countries like El Salvador, Poland, Ukraine, and Tonga that Bush used as a fig leaf to gin up a fraudulent "coalition" in invading Iraq unjustified and unprovoked. Screw them for their part in the big fraud. How the UK got duped into that one is beyond me but it’s good to see that the WH is getting its digs in on Brown, and good too to see the Pres reaching out to Chirac and looking forward to working together with him over the next 4 years. Time for some paybacks.

@sglover: Excuse me, pardon me. I think you’ll find the ‘typical right-winger’ has gotten all the history they need from Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone movies. Oh, and lest I forget, "Wolverines!!!" Assholes!

@Mike in NC: According to Wiki, Mowat served in the "Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment", but whatever. "The Grey Seas Under" is one of my favorite books of all time. Somewhat surprised to see the reference to ole Farley.

I am damned if I can think of a more useful asset in city-based combat than a well-placed sniper. Of course that’s probably one of the reasons people are weirded out by them; the wingnuts and their ilk seem to think that war ‘should’ be men lined up face to face and shooting at each other.

At least Canada wins it’s battles (including burning down the White House), unlike that clusterfuck Vietnam….big bad superpower gets it’s ass handed to them by a bunch of pajama wearing peasants…..that’s what happens when you start bogus wars for profit…asshole.

Your stupid ilk can’t even outwit a 5th grader and the real morons sit on their couch watching and call it prime time television….

We should have told you to Go Fuck Yourself when your airplanes needed safe haven when Bush and Cheney pulled their treasonous act on 9/11…

At least I know my country isn’t the most vile and hated in the world, unlike the absolutely factory of shit you hold dear to your shitty little black right wing heart with your Faux News and your crashed capitalist nightmare and your torture and criminal Wall Street.

FY has vented his spleen so I don’t have to, but I have to say Mako, you’re on really thin ice bragging about the land of opportunity these days as the place where Canada’s best and brightest must go to make it in this world.
Anyone who has been paying attention to the stats knows that the flow has reversed, and will likely continue to do so. US professionals are sooo tasty, keep em coming. As for true adventurers, because that is part of the Canadian essense – the courreur de bois ethos, they are more likely to aim a little farther and higher; China, London, Africa, etc…

My favorite anecdote on this was right after the merril, wamu, lehman meltdown, the financial post interviewed the head of ScotiaBank, one of Canada’s big banks, about snapping up American assets now that they are so cheap. His answer was no. There are nothing but problems in America’s banking future. So what are you doing, the journo asked, oh he was off to Thailand to look at aquiring the number 2 bank in that country with a second meeting in Shanghai about banking opportunities in China.

Oh, but you don’t understand that classic humor straight out of the American Spectator style sheet. Hippies, hippies always smell a-ha ha ha ha ha. And Europe is being destroyed by all its foolish socialism a-ha ha ha ha ha. The french are cowards ha ha ha haha. And the style sheet is from 1975 ha ha ha ha ha ha ….

I find it quite funny that the people that write here condemn the American military all of the time,yet get peeved when some other countries military is debased. The Canadian military does a great job and should be honored for what it has done and sacraficed. It is still ironic however.

Maybe I’m too thick-skinned or insensitive, but I would have just viewed that whole segment as nothing more than a not-very-funny effort to riff on a vaguely amusing sounding proclamation…. EXCEPT THAT IT WAS ON A SUPPOSED NEWS CHANNEL.

Mainstream media wonders why they’re getting kicked around, but I see questionable decisions like this all the time. Of course your credibility is shit with the American people – you keep programming your channel or laying out your newspaper in a way that makes it hard to tell whether you’re presenting them with what is supposedly news and what is supposedly opinion.

I’ve spent some time over there in Flanders, wandering around the WW I battlefields. I’ve seen the place where the Germans first used Mustard Gas in the war, against the Canadians. In fact, they are the only ones who held the line against the Germans near Ypres

No shit! Not to mention how hard the Belgians themselves fought against the Germans in WWI despite the fact that they knew they were going to get slaughtered.

If New York City were ever invaded and occupied you just know that these little shits would be towing the party line for our new overlords. So what they have to say about war (or anything else) is worthless.

Maybe I’m too thick-skinned or insensitive, but I would have just viewed that whole segment as nothing more than a not-very-funny effort to riff on a vaguely amusing sounding proclamation…. EXCEPT THAT IT WAS ON A SUPPOSED NEWS CHANNEL.

Joining the Mako pile-on, in answer to "What has Canada ever done for you?"

Remember the Cold War? NORAD, responsible for the joint defense of North America? The DEW line, the Pinetree Line, Bomarc missiles, fighter bases? All to shoot down Soviet bombers coming over the pole before they reached American soil, hopefully without triggering their nukes in the process. And where would those wrecks come down with all that radioactive material on board?

I find it quite funny that the people that write here condemn the American military all of the time,yet get peeved when some other countries military is debased. The Canadian military does a great job and should be honored for what it has done and sacraficed. It is still ironic however.

Let’s see a citation there, asshole. This is a familiar if extremely tired and utterly bullshit rightwing claim, so let’s see some fucking proof.

Gutfeld didn’t make the remark about not even knowing Canada was in the war and it being the place where you go if you don’t want to fight. He also agreed with another panelist who said he has much respect for all those who serve in the military. And I’ve read worse said about our US troops by leftist columnists in the Globe and Mail with no apologies requested and none offered. Not that any of you give a shit, it’s Fox, so just pile on.

You know, I fancy myself as a pretty funny guy who sometimes says outrageous things in order to get laughs. And I’ve said some pretty offensive things in the past.

Having said that, at least people KNOW when I’m joking, and if I end up offending people, then you know what I do? I apologize.

And not some bullshit apology like "I’m sorry you misunderstood me," but something like "wow, I was such an asshole. I’m really sorry, but I didn’t mean what I was saying, I was just trying to get some laughs. I won’t do it again. My bad."

Also: where do Americans get off on shitting on the military accomplishments of other nations?

I mean no offense, but comparatively speaking, the last time America truly experienced the totality of the horrors of war was in 1865. I’m not trying to minimize the American contributions to the war effort, but despite all the terrible things that went down in WWII, it’s not like American cities were destroyed, forests burned, populations massacred and relocated, mass conscription of all males between 17 and 60, or anything of that nature.

And then for Americans to go around shitting on the accomplishments and help of our international allies just begs the question: are you TRYING to make us look like assholes to the rest of the world? Just asking.

Simply let it be known that Fox News, as part of Rupert Murdoch’s News empire, is a product of Commonwealth news traditions like the odious tabloids and gossip sheets from which the Murdoch creature emerged, and grows towards the cravenness of his Sky news network in recent negotiations with the Red Chinese.
Fox News is for crazed scumbags.

I might lament that there are Canadian troops in Afghanistan (no one wins a war in those mountains…) but I have nothing but support for my countrymen who are there doing stellar work.

I suppose it would be crass to mention how many of the Canadian casualties our boys have suffered over there were caused by incompetence on the part of our Spam allies? Let’s just say that abroad the Septics have always had a poor reputation for checking targets.

Oh, and I love the constant assumption that Canada exists only at the sufferance of our neighbours to the south. The people who make such suggestions don’t read enough foreign history. August 24th 1814 might be a good place for them to start.

Oh, and I love the constant assumption that Canada exists only at the sufferance of our neighbours to the south. The people who make such suggestions don’t read enough foreign history. August 24th 1814 might be a good place for them to start.

Canada didn’t exist then. You were British territory then. Ever since you gradually became a nation, we (meaning our government) hasn’t even had a passing interesting in invading you, Assholes like Gutfield aside.

We should have told you to Go Fuck Yourself when your airplanes needed safe haven when Bush and Cheney pulled their treasonous act on 9/11…

Dear god, another truther…

At least I know my country isn’t the most vile and hated in the world, unlike the absolutely factory of shit you hold dear to your shitty little black right wing heart with your Faux News and your crashed capitalist nightmare and your torture and criminal Wall Street.

Keep in Mind that Fox News is the least watched of the Cable News channels. The Wingnut conservatives are getting smaller and smaller.